In Baghdad today the Center for Economic and Social Rights released a major report highlighting the human costs of a war against Iraq. The report warns that United States military forces may commit war crimes by deliberately destroying essential civilian life support systems

"One year after President Bush labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea the 'axis of evil,' the United States is thinking about the unthinkable: It is preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iraq."

In a pair of reports to the United Nations Security Council, the chief weapons inspectors reported that Iraq has failed to fully cooperate. But they said there is no new evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Chief nuclear inspector Mohamed El Baradei is requesting inspectors be given several more months to complete their work.

Polls indicate that most Americans are opposed to war, yet there are few questions at the White House Press Briefings with Ari Fleischer representing that point of view. Occasionally though, some tough questions are asked:

“. . . , how many convicted criminals are on the White House staff?...

In Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Cairo, London and even Antarctica, hundreds of thousands demonstrated across the globe against war in Iraq this weekend. In the largest protests, organizers said up to 500,000 took to the streets in Washington with another 200,000 in San Francisco.